M62 motorway
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The M62 motorway connects the cities of Liverpool and Hull, in England. Along the way, it passes the cities of Salford, Manchester, Warrington, Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield, and crosses the Pennine hills.
The motorway is the most important east-west road in northern England. Great efforts are made to keep the road clear of snow in winter months, when other cross-Pennine routes are often shut. This stretch of motorway is the highest in the UK.
The building of the M62 between Rochdale and Huddersfield, crossing the Pennines, is considered to have been one the most daring road construction projects to have taken place in England due to the nature of the terrain. At the highest point of the motorway, the road divides into two to negotiate the hilly terrain, and a farm, built in 1737, is situated in between the two halves. The inhabitants, Ken and Beth Wild, have lived and worked there since 1971 and are known to have helped travellers stuck on the motorway in bad weather. The road forks around the farm for engineering reasons; a myth persists that it is because they refused to be moved out of the way during its construction.
The section of the M62 around Manchester, between junctions 12 and 18, has been renumbered as the M60 Manchester Outer Ring Road road. Another section of the orbital road, the Stretford-Eccles Bypass, formerly a section of the M63, was originally built as a section of the M62. At the M62/M60 interchange, a road leads into Salford, called the M602.
In 2005, work commenced on the A1, upgrading it to motorway status between Doncaster, and Newcastle. The new motorway will intersect the M62 halfway between J32 (Ponterfract) and J33 (Ferrybridge)
Junctions
END OF MOTORWAY becomes the A5080
1-4 Not Built
5 Huyton
6 Liverpool South/Huyton/Southport/Prescot
8 Warrington West/Burtonwood (IKEA Warrington)
S Burtonwood Services
9 Warrington Central/Winwick
10 M6 (Croft Interchange)
11 Warrington East/Birchwood
12 Salford, Manchester Centre M602/M60 (Eccles Interchange)
12-18 As M60
18 Manchester North Bury/Blackburn
S Birch Services
19 Manchester Middleton/Heywood
20 Rochdale/Oldham
22 Saddleworth
23 Huddersfield (Eastbound Only)
24 Huddersfield/Halifax
S Hartshead Services
26 Bradford, Leeds West and Leeds Bradford International Airport M606/Cleckheaton/Halifax
27 Leeds Centre M621/Batley/Morley/Bradford, IKEA
28 Leeds South/Dewsbury/Leeds-Bradford Airport
29 Leeds East, Sheffield, London M1
30 Leeds RothwellRothwell/Wakefield
31 Leeds Castleford Castleford/Normanton
32 Pontefract/Castleford
32a Wetherby, Doncaster (A1) (under construction)
33/S Leeds North, York, Harrogate, London The North/The South via the A1 and Pontefract/Doncaster, Ferrybridge Services
34 Selby/Doncaster
35 M18
36 Goole
Passes over the River Ouse
37 York/Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire/Selby/Bridlington
38 North Cave/Gilberdyke (Eastbound Only)
END OF MOTORWAY becomes the A63
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